02-17-2004, 01:29 PM
I know a lot about it.
DXP is spawned when an arbitrary number of SoJ's are sold since the last DXP event. It's usually around 100, i've found. That, or it's some sort of very small percentage chance for every SoJ sold.
Wait, back up.. let me start again.
A realm is a cluster of servers with distinct ip addresses. When you create a game on a realm, it could be hosted on any one of those servers. Your game joins a pool of games being hosted by that server process.
When someone sells a SoJ, that server process increments its SoJ counter by one and (with caveats) echoes that sale message to all games attached to it.
This means everyone attached to the same server process as you recieves SoJ messages. When DXP is triggered, everyone attached to the same server process as you has a DXP event. When DXP spawns, the SoJ counter is not reset, but the arbitrary 'number of sales required / percentage chance of spawning' DC is.
So basically, getting a DXP is all about two things:
1) Getting lucky and finding yourself on the same server as a seller
2) The seller striking the "lucky SoJ"
Oftimes you can get lucky, but the seller gets bored, their game crashes, or s/he runs out of SoJ before triggering the clone. This is what has been happening to you.
Caveats:
- if the seller sells too fast, the SoJ counter jumps. Each individual SoJ sold is counted, but the counter only displays for every 10 or more. This is probably a really obvious means of flood control.
- the SoJ sold that generates DXP displays no message. It's simply Diablo Walks The Earth.
Combining the two caveats we see that it is possible for you to jump on a server and have DXP walk without ever seeing a message. A fast seller plus a lucky SoJ sale is all that's needed.
There are irc channels devoted to tracking down servers with sellers on them and informing people which server they should get on to to have a shot at a DXP spawn (it's never a certain thing, see reason 2 above).
How do you control what server you're on? You don't. You simply create games, over and over, until you are randomly given the server you want. The way you tell is by matching your server ip address with that of the person in a game with reported sales.
DXP is spawned when an arbitrary number of SoJ's are sold since the last DXP event. It's usually around 100, i've found. That, or it's some sort of very small percentage chance for every SoJ sold.
Wait, back up.. let me start again.
A realm is a cluster of servers with distinct ip addresses. When you create a game on a realm, it could be hosted on any one of those servers. Your game joins a pool of games being hosted by that server process.
When someone sells a SoJ, that server process increments its SoJ counter by one and (with caveats) echoes that sale message to all games attached to it.
This means everyone attached to the same server process as you recieves SoJ messages. When DXP is triggered, everyone attached to the same server process as you has a DXP event. When DXP spawns, the SoJ counter is not reset, but the arbitrary 'number of sales required / percentage chance of spawning' DC is.
So basically, getting a DXP is all about two things:
1) Getting lucky and finding yourself on the same server as a seller
2) The seller striking the "lucky SoJ"
Oftimes you can get lucky, but the seller gets bored, their game crashes, or s/he runs out of SoJ before triggering the clone. This is what has been happening to you.
Caveats:
- if the seller sells too fast, the SoJ counter jumps. Each individual SoJ sold is counted, but the counter only displays for every 10 or more. This is probably a really obvious means of flood control.
- the SoJ sold that generates DXP displays no message. It's simply Diablo Walks The Earth.
Combining the two caveats we see that it is possible for you to jump on a server and have DXP walk without ever seeing a message. A fast seller plus a lucky SoJ sale is all that's needed.
There are irc channels devoted to tracking down servers with sellers on them and informing people which server they should get on to to have a shot at a DXP spawn (it's never a certain thing, see reason 2 above).
How do you control what server you're on? You don't. You simply create games, over and over, until you are randomly given the server you want. The way you tell is by matching your server ip address with that of the person in a game with reported sales.